The desert is a unique environment that calls for a unique response when intervening with a built object. With the exception of the earthen materials that we discuss on this website, there are few stand alone building envelope materials that naturally relate to the desert landscape in a way that suggests belonging. Even the engaging plasters can appear too monotonous and thus foreign, unless thoughtfully composed with other more grounded materials. Our practice believes in this critical concept of belonging when designing built environments in an arid zone devoid of dense plant material, and it is for this reason that we often develop a mixed medium response as we take each specific site into account during our design process.

regional hybrid